Yo, Joe! Hasbro just dropped episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero on YouTube
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Adding to the abundance of streaming content currently available to viewers riding out the coronavirus quarantine, the Hasbro toy company has generously uploaded the first 15 episodes of the classic animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Nothing will make you more inspired to do the right thing during this national crisis than watching an elite team of multicultural soldiers battle the dreaded Cobra organization. Go Joe!
[pm_embed_youtube id=’PLNXV9Mb7egjH0ccOkdYG-SWdLNFuYpBmF’ type=’playlist’]Older readers will remember that G.I. Joe was initially launched in a miniseries format, intended as promotional material for Hasbro’s new toyline. These 15 episodes comprise those first three 5-episode miniseries, “The M.A.S.S. Device,” “The Revenge of Cobra,” and “The Pyramid of Darkness.” And before you start desperately scanning through each episode: The original PSAs aren’t in there. The parodies are better anyway.
There’s no word yet on whether Hasbro plans to upload the remaining 70 episodes or if this is just a tease to get you to purchase the full series on DVD. The company has, however, launched a new initiative called Bring Home The Fun, which is providing a number of indoor games and activities to parents and kids during this trying time. For those without children, enjoy indulging in nostalgia for a few hours until moving on to the next streaming binge.
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Now I know. And knowing is a statistically significant portion of the battle.
Knowing is only 50% of the battle. The other 50% is your gut instinct which you can trust 150% of the time. So if you believe in your heart that you should stay in that burning kitchen, you’re 200% right. You know who would leave that burning kitchen? Obama.
-Trump Twitter account circa 2020
See I thought the other 50% was murder.
General Issue Joseeeeeeeeeph
50% – knowing
25% – red lasers
25% – blue lasers
They should also add the ‘Arise, Serpentor, Arise’ miniseries. This I command!!!
I mean its would be a public service for all the kids home right now. Its educational. How else are kids today suppose to know that Sergeant Slaughter is an equal to Sun Tzu
It’s very important to know what happened to Sarge before he became an Iraqi sympathizer.
I learned a lot about real life historical people types from that one.
Seriously, I think that was the first time I heard that Dracula wasn’t really a vampire.
You can watch G.I. Joe: Resolute on dailymotion. It’s actually not half bad.
Resolute is pretty goddamn good,
Eh…I felt like they went out of their way to really emphasize how much they were going to KILL and how many of them got KILLED. It’s the version of G I Joe where people are KILLED.
You can actually watch the whole GI Joe library on Tubi (which I have been) … its free too. They got Transformers seasons too.
Call me when the really wild episodes get added, like the one with Cobra hijacking television broadcasts to host a telethon for themselves, or the one where Cobra hatches a plan to build a nation-wide network of artillery sites by launching a fast food franchise where every restaurant features “decorative” rocket on the roof that is actually a functioning warhead
the COBRA-thon episode is wild, nobody ever believes me that it’s real. i’ve never seen the fast food one, that sounds amazing
Of course it’s real, it has Mr. C! Star of the C-Team!Have you seen the one where a couple of the Joes go to a nightclub, only to find themselves in orbit after it turns out to be a space station? (Built and operated by Cobra, of course.)
They didn’t just go to a nightclub, they had dates, and the dates got scooped up by COBRA too!
I think some clips of the Cobra-thon are in this video (which is already excellent on its own):
I don’t remember either of those, but I do remember the rock band Cold Slither that was going to hypnotize their audience into joining Cobra or some shit.
I thought they were holding the stadium full of rock fans for ransom. But it’s been a long time! And it had this finale:
That looks even weirder than it should.
Obviously that animation looks ok when it’s moving by your eye, but isolating individual frames is pretty disturbing.
Project ARBOC NIOJ.
Yeah, I want the one where Shipwreck gets abducted and goes crazy.
Or the one where Destro has Cthulhu in his basement.
Isn’t that the one where he and Lady Jaye discover they’re distantly related?
I believe so.
Was the Shipwreck one where he fell in love with a fish-woman?
I’m thinking of the one where he’s brainwashed into thinking that the fight is over, and he’s moved on but forgotten about it, until it turns out that it’s all a scam by Cobra.
The fish woman came first. The one where Cobra faked Shipwreck’s life was “There’s No Place Like Springfield”, a two parter. The fish woman was there in his fantasy world. Doc had restored her and they were married with a kid. Then it got really twisted, where he saw Roadblock melting in a car wash, then other Joes melted into blobs and carried him away. That was the end of part one.
Yeah, it made a lasting impression.
There was also the one where they went to an alternate dimension where most of the Joes had been killed when Cobra finally taken over the world.
And of course, finding out that Cobra Commander has a zillion eyes from some kind of fungus and he gradually turns into an actual snake.
Whew, it’s been a while. Thanks for the clarification!
Sphinx!
Dunno, this theme song is already going enough places.
Call me when we get to the “Cold Slither” episode
Here ya go, homie:
Or The Viper! He vants to vipe your vindows!
Yup that fast food scheme is exactly the one I was thinking about.
Cobra Commander can compete with Shredder as far goofy and incompetent leadership.
Obligatory Obi
So obligatory it’s in the article itself!
Lol whoops I meant to post this one but copied the wrong link because I was watching all of them
Hey, do you know my dad?
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Dockside bars???
Johnny…do you play baseball?
btw I found the creator, Fensler Films, on Instagram and messaged him, asking if I had permission to post all 25 and he said yes. I have them downloaded but I’ve only gotten around to posting the best ones so far.
Hey guys, y’know it’s funny these people, they go to sleep, they think everything’s fine, everything’s good…they wake up the next day ‘n they’re on fire!
Predates YouTube, one of the all-time best things to appear on the internet, and fortunately not lost to time and/or cease-and-desist letters:
Ha goddamn haven’t seen that one for at least 10 years!
Wow!
Using consumer capitalism to sell the idea of the military-industrial complex and forever wars to impressionable young people is as American as apple pie.
Yo Joe!!!
Go back to Cobra, Commie!
Of course the woman sent from the military auditing department is the one who ends up being tied to Cobra. Only a member of Cobra would want financial accountability of the armed forces!
Body massage, who wants a body massage?
I’ll take any excuse to link to my favorite Funny or Die video https://www.funnyordie.com/2009/8/10/17708216/the-ballad-of-g-i-joe
I see we’ve covered the pork chop sandwiches. So who wants a body massage?
Mr. Body Massage Machine, GO!
This is by far my favourite GI Joe PSA: